How to recover a lost Android phone? Android phone stolen location and finding software APP

Chen WeiliangI have picked up Samsung mobile phones twice before, but they were all placed on the restaurant table by diners and forgot to take them away when they left.

• One of them, a primary school student, had just left the door, so he could return his phone right away.
• Another diner had been away for a long time, waiting for the other party to call to retrieve the phone and return it.

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What if our Android phone is lost or stolen and can't be found for a while?

At this point, we can retrieve it through the location of the Android phonesoftwareAPP, quickly retrieve lost Android phone.

Note: The following steps are only available for Android 8.0 and higher.

To find, lock, or erase an Android phone, the phone must:

•  on
•  Signed in to Google Account
•  Connected to mobile data or Wi-Fi
•  Available on Google Play
•  Location feature is turned on
•  Find My Device is on

(If you are in mainland China and cannot use Google services as usual, you can use the location retrieval software APP installed by default by the mobile phone manufacturer)

Step 1:Check if Find My Device is turned on

prompt: If your tablet is shared by more than one person, only the tablet owner can change these settings.

Step 2:Check if the location feature is turned on

• Open your device's Settings app.
• Taplocation information.
• Openlocation information.

Step 3:Check if Google Play display settings are turned on

Step 4:Check if you can find your device

In the device manager webpage, find your phone and operate ▼

Google's service also includes a ring, lock and clear function, and also requires the lock and clear function to be pre-enabled ▼

?How to locate and retrieve an Android phone in mainland China?

Samsung phones, Huawei phones, Xiaomi phones, Meizu phones, OPPO phones, etc...

The above-mentioned mobile phone manufacturers basically cover mainstream users in the Chinese mainland market, and now all cloud services are very rich.

?How to get back a lost Huawei phone?

Huawei's mobile phone restores the cloud service function, which can "lock the device" and "clear data".

"Lock Device" will let you reset the passcode for the 6-digit lock screen ▼

• To enable the function: "Settings" → "Cloud Services" → Register/Log in to a HUAWEI Service Account → "phone back"→Turn on "Allow phone search".

?How to locate and find Huawei mobile phones?

Borrow another Huawei mobile phone, and follow the steps above to enter the "Phone Recovery" page, click "Find My Phone", you can use another Huawei account to find the phone▼

Or use a computer, tablet, other mobile phone, etc., log in to the HUAWEI CLOUD service webpage to find a mobile phone ▼

Overseas Huawei mobile phones:You may not see the "Find My Phone" function, and it seems that you can only rely on Google's "Find My Device" APP to retrieve your Android phone.

The enabling of this feature is basically the same on more brand devices, so I won't go into details here.

However, Meizu and Samsung are specifically mentioned here.

?How to locate and find a Meizu phone?

Meizu phones can take photos remotely, send messages and get new ones indirectlycellphone number ▼

It directly saves the need to findTaobaoReverse Lookupcellphone numbersteps, and there are many cases of successful recovery.

You can find it on the Meizu cloud service website for more information ▼

?How to locate and find Samsung mobile phone?

• As many personal online storage services in China have been shut down one after another, Samsung is also among them.
• The partner terminated the personal cloud service, and Samsung also temporarily closed the Chinese cloud service ▼

• However, Samsung has not completely abandoned the Chinese market, so the "backup data" and "find phone" functions involved in cloud services are indispensable.
• Therefore, Samsung cloud service will run and integrate itself into the system's cloud and account, but it seems to only support Note 7, C9 Pro and S7/edge Android N systems at the moment.

Samsung mobile phone users, you can log in to the "Find My Phone" webpage to retrieve your Android phone ▼

Advanced settings must be turned on in your phone's "Settings" → "Biometrics & Security" → "Find My Phone":

• remote control
• Google Location Services
• Remote unlock
• Send last position

?What should I do if the Android phone is lost and the recovery function is not activated?

Suppose your Android phone is unfortunately lost and the recovery function is not enabled, which is usually impossible to recover.

Unless you call the person who found the phone and ask them to return your Android phone, there is no way out.

If someone else takes your Android phone to flash, you will never be able to get it back.

• Because with the current earth technology, it has not yet reached the level where "the Android phone can be retrieved without opening the retrieval function".
• So there is little chance of getting it back.
• If you encounter a professional thief, the above methods of locating the stolen Android phone and retrieving the software APP may be of no avail.
• Because through various methods such as disassembling the phone, they can always benefit from a stolen Android phone.
• But at the very least, we can try to stop the thief's way of profiting, increase the likelihood of getting our Android phone back, and prevent our personal information from being leaked to prevent the risk of fraud.

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